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BURGESS & LENZI. Cutting Photographs.

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WARREN S. BURGESS AND GEORGE A. LENZI, OF NORRISTOWN, PENN-- SYLVA NIA.

Letters Patent No. 101,222, dated March 29,1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thelame NVe, WARREN S. B'unenss and GnoncE-A. LENZI, of Norristown, in thecounty of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, .have in vented certainImprovements in Cutting Photograph Prints, of which the following isaspecification.

We are aware of other machines for cutting photograph prints, which cutby means of a die. Such machines will only cut one shape and size, itbeing necessary to have a separate" and distinct die for each size andshape.

This machine has no (lies, and will out any and all shapes'and sizes. 7

- The ordinary mode of cutting the prints by means of a pattern is inthis manner:

The pattern is laid on the print, which is placed on the table and onehand placed upon the pattern to hold it in position, the other handusing a knife, which is drawn around the edges of the pattern.

This mode is very tiresome, as the pattern has to be held very firmly tokeep it ii'om slipping, as the print and pattern must both lie still,because any effort to change their position must result in the slippingof the pattern, and, consequently, in the destrnck tion of the picture.

To obviate these ditlicult-ies, we place the print and pattern on arevolving disk or cutting-blo'ok, and confine the same by means of acentral foot-cad,

which is brought down upon. the same by means of a treadle, the saidfoot-pad being confined to a vertical rod in a pivoted bracket, which iscaused to revolve by the tnrnin g of the disk.

The improvement also consists in the lower .guide of the said revolvingshaft of the foot-pad, being provided with a cylindrical or conical wirespring, which is connected also to the pivoted bracket, so as to allowthe pad to readilyget and retain a central position with the revolvingdisk as it is broughtdown upon the same.

To enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains tomake and use our invention, we will now give a detailed descriptionthereof.

In the accompanying drawings which make a part of this specification-Figure l is a plan View of the machine.

" Filgnre 2 is a vertical section at the line a b of .ig.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the bearing H, spring N, and supporting plateH", on an enlarged scale.

Figure 4 is a vertical section of the same. like letters in all thefigures indicate the same par A is a stand, to which the several partsof the machine are attached.

B is a revolving disk on=the shaftC, the lower end of which turns in thevertical bearing D, that is secured in the top E of the stand.

On the said disks the prints are out, the disk being turned around byone hand and a knife held against the edge of the pattern, so as to cutthrough the print as the disk is revolved.

To keep the pattern securely upon the print while it is being out, weuse a foot-pad, F, on 'the lower end of the shaft G, which is caused toturn in its bearings H-I:l by the turning of the disk.

The said bearings. are connected with the pivoted bracket I, which ishung by means of the pin a to the support- J, which projects upward fromthe top 'E.

K is a treadle for pressing the said pad upon the pattern,being'connected with the bracket I by means of the'vertical'rod L.

Aftera print is'cut the treadle is released, and the spring M forces thebracket upward into the position represented in fig. 2 for the removalof the print, and placing another tobe out upon the disk B i In order tocause the pad F to gain acentral position with the disk B, when theshaft 0 raises from a perpendicular position during the descendingmovement of-the pad ,we connect the bearing H with a spring, N, eithercylindrical," as represented in figs. 3 and 4, or of conical form, andconnect the lower end of the spring to'the plate H", which is secured tothe bracket 1, as represented in fig. 2, so as to allow the shifting ofsaid bearing either way, thereby giving freedon of motion to the pad.

The shaft G is held in its vertical position with the bracket I by meansof the plate 0, which projects from the front of the bracket, the frontend of the plate being forked and fitted in an annular groove 2. Thecombination of the bearing H, spring N,

and supporting-plate H with the bracket 1, and arranged in relation tothe foot-pad shaft G, sub:

stantially in the manner describethfop-th purpose specified. Intestimony that the above is our invention, we

have hereunto set our hands and afiixed our seals,

this 8th day of February, 1870.

WARREN S. BURGESS. [SEAL v GEORGE A. 'LENZI.v [SEAIH Witnesses:

ABM. S. HALLMAN, WM. Ousrnn.

